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H. COOK. ADVERTISING APPARATUS FOR CASH REGISTERS. No. 482,722. Patented Sept. 20, 1892.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HUGO COOK, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

ADVERTISING APPARATUS FOR CASH-REGISTERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No.482,722, dated September 20, 1892.

Application filed July 27, 189]. Serial No. 400,870. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HUGO COOK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Advertising Apparatus for Cash-Registers, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to the combination of a series of advertising plates or tablets with a cash register and indicator in such manner that said tablets are successively displayed by the operation of the machine in its ordinary use as a cash-register. The more combination of such advertising devices with a cash-register is old.

My invention consists in the improved construction, arrangement, and combination of the parts which will be herein set forth, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a cash register and indicator embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same, taken near the right-hand side of the machine. Fig. 3 is an enlarged front elevation of the advertisingtablets and their supports and actuating devices. Fig. 4 is avertical section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3, looking to the left.

The same letters of reference are used to indicate identical parts in all the figures.

A is the cabinet or casing of the well-known cash-register, through an opening in the forward side of which project the front ends of the usual operating-keys B. The registering and indicating mechanisms are not illustrated, since they will not aid an explanation of my invention and may be of any suitable construction.

Extending across the machine above the usual window 0, through which indicators are exposed, either within the upper portion of the main casingA of the machine, or, as shown in the drawings, within a supplemental casing A, mounted upon the casing A, is ashaft D, journaled at its opposite ends in suitable supports upon the casing or framework of the machine. Fast upon this shaft near its opposite ends are two supporting disks or wheels E E. Pivotally hung to and between these disks are the advertising-tablets, consisting of rectangular plates F, preferably of nearly the width of the machine and bearing the desired advertising matter. These plates may be pivotally supported by the disks E E in any suitable manner. As shown in the drawings, each of the disks is provided with a number of equidistant holes, those in one disk being directly opposite those in the other. Secured at their opposite ends in these holes are a series of wires or rods G, extending from one disk to the other. These plates.

F are hung upon these wires by eyes H at their opposite ends, as seen in Figs. 3and 4.

Fast upon the shaft D, near its right-hand end, in Figs. 2 and 3, is a toothed wheel I, with which co-operates an actuating-pawl J, carried by a vertical rod K, mounted to play up and down in suitable guides L. The lower end of the rod K rests upon or is immediately above the rear end of an arm M, carried by and extending rearward from the usual vibrating frame or keyboard N. This frame is composed of the bar N, extending across and resting upon the upper sides of all the keys, and its side arms 0, by which it is hung upon a shaft P. \Vhenever any key is operated to indicate and register the amount of a sale, the cross-bar N is lifted, thereby lifting the rod K and causing the pawl J to turn the wheel I in the direction of the arrow. A coiled spring Q, surrounding the rod K between the upper guide L and a pin R passed through the rod, is compressed when the rod is lifted by the operation of a key, and serves to reset the rod when the key is released.

Immediately in front of the disks E E and the plates F supported by them the casiu g is provided with an open window S. As the' shaft and disks are turned forward step by step by the operations of the machine the plates F will assume the positions shown in the drawings. The upper plate upon the forward side when the machine is at rest will be caught at its upper edge by the upper edge of the window, or by some suitable stop for the purpose, and be prevented from falling forward and downward to the position of the lower plate on said forward side. In this position the advertising matter upon one side of both the upper and lower plates is exposed. As the parts are turned one step farther by employed simply to actuate it.

the next operation of the machine the upper plate is carried down far enough to disengage its upper edge, whereupon it falls forward and downward and assumes the place just vacated by the lower plate. This brings into view the advertising matter which was upon the rear side of said plate when it was in its upper position, and also the advertising matter which is upon the front side of the immediately succeeding plate, which has now assumed the upper position just vacated by the plate which has dropped. It will thus be seen that the advertising matter upon one side of two of the plates is always exposed and that at each operation of the machine such matter is hidden and new matter brought into view.

My method of supporting the advertisingplates enables me to attain great compactness. In the drawings there are shown twenty four of the plates F, pivoted between the disks E E, and as both sides of the plates are utilized there may be forty-eight different advertisements. By increasing the diameter of the disks E E the number of plates may be correspondingly increased; but in any event the greatest amount of advertising-surface is attained in a relatively small space. While I have shown the pawl-carrying rod K as actuated by the vibrating bar N each time a key is operated,yet it may be actuated by any other suitable part of the machine. Thus instead of resting upon the arm M the latter might be dispensed with and the rod K be extended down through the base T of the machine and arranged to co-operate with the money-drawer U. As is well known, these drawers are usually held closed against the pressure of a spring by a lock which is released by the operation of any key, whereupon the drawer is thrown open by the spring. The lower end of the rod might be made to rest upon the top of the rear wall of the drawer when thelatter is closed,as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 2. When the drawer was unlocked and thrown open, the spring Q would throw the rod K downward far enough to permit the pawl J to engage the next tooth of the wheel I, and when the drawer was closed again the upper side of its rear wall, suitably beveled for the purpose, would ride under and lift the rod K and cause the pawl to turn the wheel I and expose fresh advertising matter, as will be readily understood.

While in the construction illustrated the disks E E and toothed wheel I are fast upon a revoluble shaft, they might be revolubly mounted upon a fixed shaft or other supports, the disks E E being rigidly connected by the wires G and the wheel I be made fast to one of the disks. While, also, the actuatingpawl J for the wheel I is shown as pivoted to and carried by the rod K, yet it might be independently supported and the rod K be Again, while I prefer to mount the advertising-tablets in a supplemental casing A, which may be readily attached to and detached from the ordinary cash-register casing, yet, if desired, the main casing A may have its upper portion sufficiently extended to afford room for the tablets within it. It is only necessary that the tablets be supported in position to be exposed at a window above that through which the indicators are exposed.

As stated at the beginning of the specification, I am aware that it is not broadly new to combine a series of advertising plates with a cash register and indicator and actuate them by a connection with some movable part of the machine-as shown, for in stance, in the patent to Drew, No. 434,255, of August 12, 1890; but in prior contrivances such as the Drew-it was not possible to display advertising matter on both sides of the plates, and the arrangement of the plates in the form of an endless belt required a large space within the casing of the machine, and even when the latter was enlarged to accommodate the advertising devices it was still possible to exhibit only a very limited number of advertisements. My advertising-plates are arranged in exceedingly-compact form, may be placed within a small supplemental casing secured to the top of the ordinary casing of a cash-register, and necessitate no special construction or enlargement of the casing. Furthermore, they may be combined with cash-registers which are already in use by simply securing the supplemental casing containing them to the upper side of the machine and inserting the connections between the actuating-pawl and the money-drawer or other moving part of the machine, all of which is impossible with such a construction and arrangement of the advertising devices as are shown in the Drew patent before referred to.

I am also aware that it is not new to mount a series of indicating or advertising plates between a pair of revolving disks, so that mat ter placed upon said plates will be exposed to view as the disks are revolved; but I am not aware that such an indicating or advertising contrivance has before been combined with a cash register and indicator.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim 1. In a cash register and indicator, the combination of the casing having in its upper portion the usual window or sight-opening 0, through which the indicators which exhibit the amount of the sale are exposed, and provided, also, with a second window S, located above the window 0, the revoluble disksEE, supported within the space behind the window S, the advertisingplates F, pivotally supported by and between the disks E E, the toothed wheel I, revoluble with the disks E E, the actuating=pawl .I, co-operating with the wheel I, and connections between said pawl and a movable part of the machine, whereby the pawl is caused to turn the wheel I and disks E E at each operation of the machine, substantially as and for the purpose ally supported by and between the disks E E,

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2. In a cash register and indicator, the combination of the casing having in its upper portion the usual window or sight-opening D, through which the indicators which exhibit the amount of the sale are exposed, and provided, also, with the second window S, located above the window 0, the revoluble shaft D, journaled in the space behind the window S, the disks E E and toothed wheel I, fast upon said shaft, the advertising-plates F, pivotthe pawl J, co-operating with the wheel I, the vertically-movable rod K for actuating the pawl, the operating-keys B, and the vibrating cross -bar N, co-operating with the keys B and with the rod K, in the manner described.

HUGO COOK.

\Vitnesses:

EDWARD REOTOR, J. THoMsoN (Boss. 

